Born Thomas Morjinski
Buried in an unmarked grave next to his wife, Sarah.
From the FM Morris Family Bible:
"Tommy Morris was a German Jew, and came to this country as a young man. He had no brothers, and if he had any sisters they were left over in Germany with his parents. And we have assumed from the few facts that we have been able to get that his parents did not come over with him, we can find no trace of them. He first settled in or around Willtown Bluff, which is just a few miles from Adam's Run, SC. Later he met and married Sarah Anne Padgett, and they lived in the Pleasant Grove Community, and were members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church."
As told by his son, Francis Marion Morris:
"Thomas Morjinsky (sp?) (Morris) took his bar mitzvah in Germany before coming to America alone when he was around 16 or 17 years old. His ship came into port at Charles Towne and (he) looked up his Jewish aunt (who married a Gentile). She ran a fruit and vegetable stand which he helped with. She died shortly after, however, and her husband married a Gentile woman. This Gentile couple took Thomas in and raised him."
Buried in an unmarked grave next to his wife, Sarah.
From the FM Morris Family Bible:
"Tommy Morris was a German Jew, and came to this country as a young man. He had no brothers, and if he had any sisters they were left over in Germany with his parents. And we have assumed from the few facts that we have been able to get that his parents did not come over with him, we can find no trace of them. He first settled in or around Willtown Bluff, which is just a few miles from Adam's Run, SC. Later he met and married Sarah Anne Padgett, and they lived in the Pleasant Grove Community, and were members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church."
As told by his son, Francis Marion Morris:
"Thomas Morjinsky (sp?) (Morris) took his bar mitzvah in Germany before coming to America alone when he was around 16 or 17 years old. His ship came into port at Charles Towne and (he) looked up his Jewish aunt (who married a Gentile). She ran a fruit and vegetable stand which he helped with. She died shortly after, however, and her husband married a Gentile woman. This Gentile couple took Thomas in and raised him."
Born Thomas Morjinski
Buried in an unmarked grave next to his wife, Sarah.
From the FM Morris Family Bible:
"Tommy Morris was a German Jew, and came to this country as a young man. He had no brothers, and if he had any sisters they were left over in Germany with his parents. And we have assumed from the few facts that we have been able to get that his parents did not come over with him, we can find no trace of them. He first settled in or around Willtown Bluff, which is just a few miles from Adam's Run, SC. Later he met and married Sarah Anne Padgett, and they lived in the Pleasant Grove Community, and were members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church."
As told by his son, Francis Marion Morris:
"Thomas Morjinsky (sp?) (Morris) took his bar mitzvah in Germany before coming to America alone when he was around 16 or 17 years old. His ship came into port at Charles Towne and (he) looked up his Jewish aunt (who married a Gentile). She ran a fruit and vegetable stand which he helped with. She died shortly after, however, and her husband married a Gentile woman. This Gentile couple took Thomas in and raised him."
Buried in an unmarked grave next to his wife, Sarah.
From the FM Morris Family Bible:
"Tommy Morris was a German Jew, and came to this country as a young man. He had no brothers, and if he had any sisters they were left over in Germany with his parents. And we have assumed from the few facts that we have been able to get that his parents did not come over with him, we can find no trace of them. He first settled in or around Willtown Bluff, which is just a few miles from Adam's Run, SC. Later he met and married Sarah Anne Padgett, and they lived in the Pleasant Grove Community, and were members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church."
As told by his son, Francis Marion Morris:
"Thomas Morjinsky (sp?) (Morris) took his bar mitzvah in Germany before coming to America alone when he was around 16 or 17 years old. His ship came into port at Charles Towne and (he) looked up his Jewish aunt (who married a Gentile). She ran a fruit and vegetable stand which he helped with. She died shortly after, however, and her husband married a Gentile woman. This Gentile couple took Thomas in and raised him."
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